What you'll learn

  • 🌾 Master the Art of Crafting and Nurturing Your Very Own Mother Dough or Sourdough
  • 🌀 Learn Effective Techniques to Refresh and Maintain Perfect Sourdough Consistently
  • 🥖 Discover the Secrets to Baking Irresistibly Delicious Sourdough Bread Loaves
  • 🍞 Create an Authentic Mother Dough Italian-Style Focaccia that Impresses
  • 📚 Uncover the Science and Theory Behind Natural Leavening for Perfect Pastries

Course Content

Course Introduction

1 lecture
Introduction

Welcome to my Sourdough / Motherdough Course

The Natural Leavening Theory

5 lectures
The Flour Rheology

Let's do some theory....In here we will talk about flour: it's components and it's behaviour.

The Mother Dough Theory 2

Some more theory about mother dough and mixing methods

Acetic Vs Lactic

Let's see now the difference between lactic and acetic fermentation and how to control them

Liquid or Stiff Mother Dough?

The eternal dilemma

Why Mother Dough?

Why is everyone obsessed by Sourdough?

How To Start a New Mother Dough

4 lectures
How to start: Some Theory first...

How to start a Sourdough: What's behind?

How to start a Mother Dough part 2

The actual steps

How to start a Mother Dough part 3

Some more steps

How to start a Mother Dough part 4

Mother Dough Keeping

3 lectures
How to Refresh a Mother Dough

Here we see how to nurse our little pet

How to Use a Mother Dough

Using a sourdough is simpler than it seems. Let's see how

Vacation Time Tricks

What to do when we need a break

Focaccia

5 lectures
Focaccia: The steps explained

It's time to put our knowledge in good practice!

Ingredients and proces starting
The Gluten Development
Stretch and Folding
Final Proof and Baking

The Natural Levain Bread Loaf

9 lectures
The Sourdough Bread Schedule

Here you find the recipe for Sourdough Bread with overnight rest in the fridge.

The Sourdough Bread Quick Recipe

This recipe in easy and quicker, does not requires any fridge rest. It always work amazingly!

Bread Intro

Another pivotal product made with Mother Dough is obviously bread!

The Levain

How to revive the Sourdough First

Ingredient and first mix
Final Mix and Bulk Proofing

Here we complete the mixing with all the ingredients

Shaping

The dough is now risen...  it's a sticky situation...

The Loaves Baking

The moment of bliss

Final Consideration about Bread

Let's recap

Course Conclusion

1 lecture
Course Conclusion

Description

🌟 Master the Art of Sourdough Baking! 🌟

For new baking enthusiasts, the world of sourdough might feel intimidating 😰, but fear not! With our fabulous baking course, you'll gain all the skills you need to create the perfect loaf every time. 🍞

Don't let the myth of expensive, rule-bound baking deter you. Our course offers a low-cost, low-pressure environment where you can unleash your creativity. It's all about introducing you to good food and even better, teaching you to make it yourself! 🥖

This program is all-encompassing, revealing the fascinating details of dealing with flour, water, and heat. Whether you're brand new to sourdough 🍞or eager to refine your skills, you'll learn my "easy-going" method for developing Mother Dough and creating mouth-watering sourdough bread.

We'll guide you from choosing the right ingredients to kneading and shaping the dough, followed by achieving the ideal bake in the oven 🔥. With a few essential basics, you'll be baking crusty, healthy loaves in no time! 🕒

Plus, embark on a culinary journey to bake an amazing Italian-style Focaccia and the Iconic Country-style Bread Loaf with two unique recipes! 🇮🇹

If you stumble along the way, don't worry! I'm always here, ready to answer your questions and provide assistance. Simply leave a comment, and I'll be sure to help you out. 💪

Who this course is for:

  • 🥐 Baking Enthusiasts
  • 🥖 Bread Lovers
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Course Reviews

  • 😀 Carolina footes
    5
  • 😀 Luis Bautista
    5

    Yes It does. Wanted more course like this.

  • 😀 Andrea Cortese
    4.5
  • 😐 Carolle Babin
    2.5

    It’s interesting but very technical. Looking forward to the rest of the class.

  • 😀 Marina Gambi
    5

    Alessio, your excitment when explaining just makes me more excited in learning, because mother dough is really a very impressive natural process. Congratulations to mother nature and to man like you who took the time to study and pass this knowledge forward, so we all can eat it and feel very happy :)

  • 😀 Stella sproat
    5

    Great course !

  • 😀 Faisal Nainggolan
    5
  • 😀 ALESSIO Piantanida
    5
  • 😀 Blessing Adetoro
    5

    Making mother dough is really a difficult task to complete, but with the simplicity you introduced in the course has created a level of handling this more professionally. This course has definitely bolster my skill.

  • 😀 Darlene E. Espinosa
    5

    I was really amaze by the level of understanding of the instructor, I actually have some background idea in dough making, but watching this has really broaden my knowledge. This is a really good course.

  • 😀 Esther Donald
    5

    An amazing course, really love how detailed the explanation was. I would definitely recommend this to my friends.

  • 😀 Gabriel Hadeb
    5

    A really cool stuff. Good job

  • 😀 Olajubu Adebowale
    5

    Very interesting course.

  • 😀 Dray
    5

    Its been a while I have been wishing to learn how to make this, finally I take this course that is thorough. Thanks for this wonderful course.

  • 😀 Lucas Janet
    5

    Nice course, clear explanation. I'm very that I watch this.